Sunday, December 13, 2009
I know I complain a lot...but deep down inside I know that I am very, very blessed.
Not many people are surrounded by a loving & supportive family, partner and friends all year round.
Not many people get the chance to laugh freely.
Not many people get the chance to love wholeheartedly.
Not many people have God and Jesus in their hearts.
Not many people have the time to sit back, reflect on the year and realise how blessed they are.
2009 has been a crappy year, as many years have been, but as long as I have my God, my Jesus and my loved ones around, I will be OK.
Yes I will :) Merry Christmas everyone!!
Yinny was Joshing around @ 8:50 PM
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Sunday, December 06, 2009
I watched Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs with Juin last weekend. This was my second time watching this movie - I actually watched it in Singapore first as it had been released earlier there. I highly recommend it because it's very cute!!
There are 2 songs from the OST that I like too because they are very happy songs:
1. Raining Sunshine by Miranda Cosgrove; and
2. Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows by Lesley Gore
Of course, the moral of the story is:
1. Don't pretend to be someone you are not;
2. People who love you may not be able to express themselves adequately - doesn't mean that they don't love you; and most important of all -
3. Don't be greedy!!!
And who doesn't like a movie which features lotsa yummy food for the most part of it!!! If only life was full of sunshine and lollipops :)
Yinny was Joshing around @ 7:17 PM
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Saturday, December 05, 2009
Ahhhhh random stuff. Don't ya just love it.
Adorable pen and bookmark I got from Kikki K which were heavily discounted from the DFO at Southwharf - it just shows that old stock is cheap because it's old stock but it's just as cute as ever.
Beautiful yoyos I got from The Cupcake Family - They have strawberry, vanilla, green tea, chocolate and lemon fillings. Yum.
Just the cutest 'lil penguin ever - a random present from Juin because I couldn't stop staring at it in the shop. His name by default is Blake, which is quite strange for a penguin but I think I renamed him Snowball HAHA.
Ahhhhh 'tis the season for buying lotsa stuff.
Yinny was Joshing around @ 8:34 PM
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2 things happened to me in the span of a week which I felt got me into highly precarious positions:
1. I was in Borders the other day reading magazines whilst waiting for Juin to finish work. Usually I see people who bring a ton of books and magazines and read them and then chuck them in a stack on the floor and leave. In the end the poor staff at Borders has to pick them up one by one and put them back in its place. When Juin arrived at Borders, we decided to leave and go for dinner. Since I only took 2 magazines with me to read, I decided not to let the poor staff clean up my mess and put them back where I got them from. Unfortunately Juin and I were engaging in exciting conversation (I can't remember what about) and soon I walked right out of the store without realising that I hadn't put the magazines back, I was still carrying them!!! Once I stepped out of the store I realised, and stopped and went back in to replace them, but my big face was already caught on camera. I was lucky that the store detectors didn't beep (for whatever reason), but it was still a close shave. I can't believe I was so absent minded!!!
2. I was queuing to draw money at an ATM the other day and the person in front of me was in such a hurry that he forgot to take his debit card with him. By the time I realised and turned around to yell at him, he had already disappeared. I looked down at the screen and it said, 'would you like to place another transaction?', indicating that if I had pressed 'yes', I would have been able to draw as much money as I liked from his account (providing that this fella is rich) because the dumbass keyed his PIN number in and left before ejecting his card from the machine!!! So I ejected his card, made my own transaction, and went next door to the bank, passed it to one of the staff and told her what happened. She took the card and I left, not bothering to ask for her name. However, the machine already caught me on camera ejecting the fella's card - what if he accuses me of taking it?! I would have no way of proving my innocence if the bank misplaces his card!!
Lesson learnt - you can never be too careful!!!
Yinny was Joshing around @ 7:57 PM
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Today marks the 2nd month that my aunt is not around.
They say time heals all wounds, but my cousin and I both agree that time doesn't heal anything.
I picked up a copy of Alana Stewart's "My Journey with Farrah" the other day.
I saw it in the bookshop and I told myself that this was the book I was looking for, after going through numerous ones on grieving for the loss of a loved one. I needed someone who went through the same journey that I did, who felt what I felt.
If you didn't already know, Farrah Fawcett, one of the original Charlie's Angels, passed away from Anal Cancer in June 2009 after battling it for over 2 years. Her ordeal were in many ways similar and yet different to my aunt's. Alana Stewart was one of her closest friends, who was by her side most of the time, who flew in and out of Germany for her treatment with Cancer. This book is exerpts from her diary from the time when she found out about Farrah's cancer until just before Farrah passed away.
This book is so therapeutic - I read it and cried at the same time and the tears just wouldn't stop. I can't imagine how much pain Cancer patients have to go through. It's just unbelievable. And the vomitting - it just doesn't stop. Their body degenerates so quickly that they can't move anymore, they have no energy to do anything that even breathing is a chore. They can't eat, they sleep most of the time, they can't do anything for themselves, and their body is full of so much medication that it's just inhuman. I can go on and on about how this disease is so dibilitating but I won't, because mere words just won't do it justice - you'd have to see or experience it first hand. It is just a slow, suffering, cruel, painful death where every day is a struggle.
So I decided to enrol myself into a Cancer volunteer program. There were admin positions available, as well as fund raising positions, but I wanted to get down and dirty and go straight to patient support. I would be assisting cancer patients in the hospital and providing them with a listening ear. This position is available for people who have lost a loved one to Cancer. However one of the criteria was that there is a 2 year minimum gap between the date of death and the day I volunteer. Which makes sense I guess, since they probably don't want me breaking down sobbing in front of the patients.
Maybe I should just pen a book like Alana Stewart's in honour of my aunt.
Yinny was Joshing around @ 7:04 PM
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Wednesday, December 02, 2009
Yinny was Joshing around @ 8:54 PM
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